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“A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, The Kite Runner

“Didn't anyone ever tell you that endurance, that resilience, that *strength* looks so different on us all? On some it looks like still waters and on others it looks like a dam bursting as the water falls.”
― Nikitia Gill

“Empty out the darkness that has accumulated at the bottom of your heart, all the words you refuse to say.”
― Nikita Gill

“As much as people say, "You do not have to do this alone," know that there are some things you must do alone -- like find each part of you that no one has ever known how to love, hold it as it cries, and love it anyway.”
― Nikita Gill

“A trauma doesn't stop just because you've been rescued.”
― Dot Hutchison

“Beauty loses its meaning when you're surrounded by roo much of it.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“It's easier for the horrors to catch up once you have nothing to do.”
― Dot Hutchison

“Sometimes the illusion of freedom, of choice, was more painful than captivity.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“The trouble with sociopaths, really, is that you never know where they draw their boundaries.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“Not making a choice is a choice. Neutrality is a concept, not a fact. No one actually gets to live their lives that way.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“You don't learn to be brave. You just do what's right, even if it scares you.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“My secrets are old friends; I would feel like a poor friend if I abandoned them now.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“I’m not a fake person; I’m carefully and genuinely handcrafted.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“We can never flee the misery that is within us.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Sometimes we get through adversity only by inagining what the world might he like if our dreams should ever come true.”
― Arthur Golden

“No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“People," said the doctor sadly, "are always so anxious to get things out into the open where they can put a name to them, even a meaningless name, so long as it has something of a scientific ring.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“We have grown to blindly trust in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind might fight wildly to preserve its own familiar stable patterns against all evidence that it was leaning sideways.”
― Shirley Jackson